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School & Fmaily briefs

With more than 70 percent of Americans living in 37 states where same-sex marriage is now legal and the U.S. Supreme Court set to rule on the constitutionality of state marriage bans, the annual Charles B. Nam Lecture at Florida State University will address a timely subject.

This year’s lecture will be delivered by an academic whose work led the American Sociological Association to file an amicus brief with the court asserting that children raised by same-sex parents fare just as well as children raised by opposite-sex parents.

Wendy Manning will speak on “Same-Sex Relationships and Well-Being” when she visits FSU for the lecture at 1 p.m. Friday at DeVoe Moore Conference Room, 150 Bellamy Building at FSU. It’s sponsored by the College of Social Science and Public Policy’s Center for Demography and Population Health. She is a professor of sociology, the director of the Center for Family and Demographic Research, and co-director of the National Center for Family and Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University.

For more information, contact Woody Carlson, at ecarlson@fsu.edu.

FSU hosting showcase for student innovation

Interactive exhibits, performances and demonstrations by Florida State University students will be featured at DIGITECH, an annual open house designed to showcase technology-based student innovations.

“DIGITECH shows how FSU students from every discipline — from art to zoology and everything in between — are using computers to innovate in their fields,” said Ken Baldauf, director of Florida State’s Program in Interdisciplinary Computing and coordinator of DIGITECH.

This year’s exhibition will be held in a new, more accessible location at the Turnbull Conference Center, 555 W. Pensacola St., from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. The event is free.

Exhibits will include artwork that changes appearance according to the proximity of the viewer and drone aircraft that help small-scale farms and farmers achieve their maximized growth yields.

An awards ceremony will take place from 4 to 5 p.m. and will feature a keynote presentation by Cecily Sommers, author of “Think Like a Futurist.” Students who share a new business idea will also have a chance to win $500 from FSU Entrepreneurs sponsoring a Shark Tank competition from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.